Risk behavior contributes to substantial morbidity and mortality during adolescence. This study examined neurocognitive predictors of proposed subtypes of adolescent risk behavior: planned (premeditated) versus unplanned (spontaneous). Adolescents (N 1⁄4 69, 49% male, M 1⁄4 15.1 [1.0] years) completed neurocognitive tasks (Iowa Gambling Task [IGT], and Game of Dice Task [GDT]) and a selfreport ...

Promotion can stimulate consumer’s unplanned buying which is regarded as the main source of sales growth, however, it may increase consumer’s planned buying shortfall as well. On one hand, online scarce promotion more significantly influences consumer’s unplanned buying and planned buying shortfall; On the other hand, frequent and continuing online promotion weakens its marginal performance. Un...

BACKGROUND Starting dialysis in an unplanned manner is a frequent situation in a dialysis centre even for patients with a regular nephrology follow-up. For no clear reason, chronic haemodialysis (HD) is more frequently used than peritoneal dialysis for unplanned dialysis patients. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the results of a dialysis policy dedicated to unplanned dialy...

RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Rapid response systems (RRSs) are recommended by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and implemented worldwide. Our study on the effects of an RRS showed a non-significant decrease in cardiac arrest and/or unexpected death from 0.5% to 0.25%. Unplanned intensive care unit (ICU) admissions increased significantly from 2.5% to 4.2% without a decrease in APACHE ...

BACKGROUND A possible downstream effect of high in-hospital bed occupancy is that patients in the emergency department (ED) who would benefit from in-hospital care are denied admission. The present study aimed at evaluating this hypothesis through investigating associations between in-hospital bed occupancy at the time of presentation in the ED and the probability for unplanned 72-hour (72-h) r...

In 1992, the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) recommended that women of child-bearing age increase consumption of the vitamin folic acid to reduce spina bifida and anencephaly (neural tube defects [NTD]) cases (1). Since then, national efforts have been implemented to increase the use of dietary supplements containing folic acid (2). In 1996, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mandated...

A large body of literature has documented a negative correlation between teenage childbearing and teen mothers’ socioeconomic outcomes, yet researchers continue to disagree as to whether the association represents a true causal effect. This article extends the extant literature by employing propensity score matching with a sensitivity analysis using Rosenbaum bounds. The analysis of recent coho...

CONTEXT Childbearing intentions vary by race and ethnicity and by relationship type. However, few studies have examined whether they differ by race and ethnicity within relationship type. METHODS Data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study were used to examine the childbearing intentions of 9,100 mothers of a cohort of children born in 2001. Multivariate and multinomial regression analys...

Based on data from the European Social Survey (2018), this paper examines ideas about ideal age to become a parent in 28 countries. Using multi-level models, it assesses impact of real timing childbirth and childlessness acceptance at country level while controlling for individual characteristics. The findings show that variability is relatively limited correlates significantly with childbearin...